Design teams commonly use Jakob Nielsen’s heuristics to evaluate human-computer interaction because they provide a comprehensive user experience audit. A heuristic evaluation explores ten critical facets of a product’s user experience, allowing design teams to focus on specific usability problems within user interfaces and interactions. Get accurate insights about your product’s usability performance using advanced
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UX Content Strategy – How to Create and Track it
Content exists across multiple touchpoints sourced from numerous creators. A UX content strategy ensures content production and governance remain high quality and consistency to enhance a product’s user experience while meeting business goals. We’ll explore two significant factors in developing and maintaining a content strategy: A content strategy team uses these facets to create a
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Customer Experience vs. User Experience – Why the Difference Matters
Don Norman, the founder of the Nielsen Norman Group and former Apple VP, coined the term user experience or UX in the 90s. Almost two decades later, Tony Hillson from Service Design in New Zealand came up with customer experience or CX. Many people incorrectly use CX and UX interchangeably, but these describe different levels
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What Are User Pain Points?
User pain points are the foundation for every design project. Solving these problems creates business value while enhancing a product’s usability and desirability. The best way to identify customer pain points is through comprehensive prototyping and usability testing. Designers use test results, plus insights from other UX research, to iterate on solutions to solve these
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What is Collaborative Prototyping?
We’re always looking for new ways to enhance prototyping and cross-functional collaboration. Collaborative prototyping is a “hyper-efficient” sprint methodology to create a prototype in one day. Bring collaboration between designers and developers to the ultimate level. Introduce a single source of truth for design and create high-fidelity interactive prototypes in minutes that devs can replicate
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What is Content Design?
Content design has evolved to become a crucial role in the UX design process. Teams rely on content designers to ensure products deliver the highest quality content that meets user needs precisely when they need it. Do you struggle to build accurate prototypes as a content designer? Build fully functioning prototypes with UXPin Merge, the
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What is a Design Critique and How Can it Improve Your Designs?
Collecting feedback is an integral part of a product designer’s work – one which allows them to make sure that the product they’re designing is both intuitive and adds value to users’ lives. However, it’s not just about asking fellow designers, stakeholders, and developers for their opinions, per se. It’s about getting the most out
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7 Productivity Hacks for UX Designers
Maximizing productivity is vital for UXers and product managers who are often under tight project deadlines. Startups and small teams also seek UX productivity tips to maximize limited resources. Whether you suffer from procrastination or just want to increase your value as a UX designer, this article offers actionable advice to optimize your UX team’s
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UX Honeycomb – 7-Factor Design Framework for Great User Experience
Peter Morville’s User Experience Honeycomb has been around since 2004 and is still a highly relevant design framework for modern product development projects. The framework forces design teams to evaluate a product through seven facets of user experience to identify areas for improvement. This article provides an overview of the UX Honeycomb and the circumstances
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UX Benchmarking Guide – Where Should You Take the Data From?
UX benchmarking is crucial for identifying areas for improvement and achieving product goals. Benchmarks give design teams a baseline from industry standards, competitors, or previous performance to improve a digital product’s user experience. This article provides a high-level overview of UX benchmarking, how to find relevant benchmarks, and a three-step process for conducting successful benchmark
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Improve Your Team’s Roadmap and Build Better Products
Whether an early-stage startup or a multi-national organization, a product roadmap is essential for aligning teams toward achieving the company’s goals and objectives. This article includes valuable tips from product experts about creating and maintaining a successful product roadmap. We’ve also included a list of tools to simplify the process of building one. Streamline product
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Software Development Tools 101 – A Quick Guide for Designers
As a designer, learning about software development tools can help improve design projects and find ways to enhance collaboration with engineers. Such proactive approach can also help design projects increase buy-in for initiatives. A great example is how Delivery Hero’s product team leveraged front-end debt to get buy-in for their Marshmallow Design System. By understanding
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BASIC UX Framework – Definition, Benefits, and Application
The BASIC UX framework is as simple as its name suggests. Designers measure a product against a set of UX principles to identify usability issues. These principles apply to web design, mobile apps, and other digital products. What makes BASIC UX great is it’s a checklist template design teams can adopt and adapt to meet
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Creating Engaging Mobile App Design – All You Need to Know
It’s predicted that by 2023, the mobile apps market will reach $935 billion in sales. Pretty impressive, right? However, to get a piece of that cake, you need to make sure that your app design is not only pleasing to the eye but also easy to use. Only then you’ll be able to generate high
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UX Business Case – How to Build a Strong Case for Investing in Design
With limited resources and competition from other departments, creating a compelling business case for UI/UX design initiatives is crucial to secure buy-in. You must prove you have the best solution and can execute your initiative successfully. This article discusses how user experience design professionals can create a convincing UX business case, including an example from
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